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Because blogging is not like building a Field of Dreams, “They will read”, is NOT necessarily the result of, “If you post it”… I want to thank all of the folks who have chosen to subscribe, comment, and email me… You have spared me listening to the sound of one hand clapping… I especially want to thank Professor Rich Carney, who sent me this wonderful picture of his first ‘sweetheart’.
Yep… This ’56 Chevy Belair is Prof Carney’s first car… He bought it for 75 bucks in 1964, and it got him through his junior and senior years of (Audubon) High School… It must have been pretty reliable, because I have it on good authority, that the good Professor did indeed, graduate… Thank you Dr. Carney!!!
After school it was half an hour / forty-five minutes of American Bandstand… Then a switch to (my favorite)… The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis ("That's Dobie with a 'b'") (Dwayne Hickman)…
When Dobie wasn’t swiping the Old Man’s soda bottles from behind the store….So he could get the deposit (from the Old Man... for the third time!... -“I've gotta kill that boy; I've just gotta!"-)… He was scheming with American television's first beatnik, Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver), to get rich quick… All this so he could impress Thalia (Tuesday Weld)… Or some other babe… Only to be thwarted by Milton (Warren Beatty)… Dobie Gillis was the first television show to treat teens as anything other than cretins…
Here’s the Marlboro commercial… Let’s flick on Bandstand and see what’s new on the charts…
2 comments:
What a great car! I wish I was around during that era. Everything seemed so swell.
Cars rode better, life was less complicated, not as material things oriented, and the music, ah, the music, was super!
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